Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 2
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: -7 ?

BOWNESS AND WINDERMERE COMMUNITY CARE TRUST 

The Bowness and Windermere Community Care Trust exists to promote the wellbeing of the local community byengaging, responding, caring and serving.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£25£59£-34n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/22£44£79£-35n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/21£81£85£-4n/an/an/an/an/a65
31/03/20£174£184£-10n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/19£157£175£-19n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/18£166£219£-54£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£157£231£-74£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£159£184£-25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£175£175£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£212£187£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£224£247£-24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£300£323£-23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£66£66£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£85£88£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£67£62£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£66£58£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£67£66£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£60£60£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£77£67£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£58£50£8£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 24 years

www.thephoenixcentre.co.uk

admin@bwcct.co.uk

01539444825

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cumbria,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 10 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Bowness and Windermere Community Care Trust
£1,520 21/10/2023
We would like to continue to provide a regular event bringing people together to socialise and eat, whilst interacting with young people by way of singing or playing musical instruments.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Windermeals
£3,621 23/10/2021
We would like to buy ingredients to make hot soup and a hot main meal for our elderly community, which will be delivered free to their homes twice a week.
Cumbria Community Foundation - Food costs
£5,400 10/06/2020
13
Food costs

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/02/2000, number: 1079452
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/10/1999, number: 03857179
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR12: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from ROTARY CLUB OF AMBLESIDE TRUST FUND on 14/07/2023
Main office

B W C C T
THE PHOENIX CENTRE
PHOENIX WAY
WINDERMERE
LA23 1BZ

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED AMONGST POOR, AGED AND DISABLED PEOPLE AND THE PROMOTION OF ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES IN WINDERMERE AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINEE

Defined Area of Benefit:

WINDERMERE AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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